Church of St Stephen
CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, BELLE VUE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123753
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, BELLE VUE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123753
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, BELLE VUE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, BELLE VUE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cinderford
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 65910 13837
Details
SO 61 SE CINDERFORD BELLE VUE ROAD (east side) 10/25 Church of St. Stephen II Parish church, 1890, chancel 1893, by C.H. Lingen Barker of Hereford. 4-bay nave with aisles, chancel and north vestry. Impressive west front to road, projecting centre, entrance door on returns. Plain plinth, plain ashlar bands at various levels: 3 lancet windows in centre at lower level, one each in aisles; above two 2-light windows with geometric tracery, above again a plate- tracery rose window and in the apex 3 slits with louvres. Either side the corner buttresses are taken up above the eaves with gabled caps. The entrance doors have separate hoodmoulds, with above a flat gable against the wall, carved with 2 layers of recessed semi- circles. The bell hangs under a projecting timber gablet over the north door. Aisles buttressed, with 3 lancets grouped beneath a hoodmould in each bay; clerestory has 2 sets of 2 lancets per bay. Impressive interior, plain round columns, simple arches: ceiling boarded, pointed barrel vault with ribs at half-bay centres rising off stone corbels. Western gallery in projection with stone balustrade. Original fittings.
Listing NGR: SO6591013837
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 354094
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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